Hinstorff Verlag 2009

Having won won numerous awards with her first book, Zeckengeflüster (‘Whisperings of ticks’), Ann Cathrin Raab has followed it up with a second children’s book, Ein Mann geht in die Welt (‘A man goes out into the world’), which like its predecessor has been awarded a prize by the Stiftung Buchkunst foundation for its outstanding design. Content and design are once again excellently matched and refreshingly unconventional. This story of a man who sets out to escape the oppressive tedium of life within his four walls will therefore delight not only children but adults too.